Materialmangel ist weiterhin ein großes Problem in der Industrie. Der vorliegende Artikel zeigt aktuelle Entwicklungen auf Basis der ifo Umfrageergebnisse für die Industrie auf. Die Unternehmen rechnen mit einer Auflösung der Engpässe Mitte 2023. Im Oktober 2021 hofften sie noch, dass sich...

Ausgaben für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) sind es- senziell für die Wettbewerbsposition eines Unternehmens sowie dessen (langfristigen) Erfolg. Darüber hinaus spie- len FuE für die langfristigen Produktionsmöglichkeiten ei- ner Volkswirtschaft eine sehr wichtige Rolle. Auf Basis der ifo...

The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

This paper investigates the potential for a further increase in trade between the fifteen old EU members and the twelve new countries having joined in 2004 and 2007 that results from a convergence of the new members' institutions towards the level of the EU-15 in accordance with the Acquis...

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal articles we show that the average number of authors per article has increased over the last years. This process is likely to be continued in the future. In a regression analysis...

In this paper, we assess the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts at the regional level using a large data set at quarterly frequency. We forecast gross domestic product (GDP) for two German states (Free State of Saxony and Baden-Württemberg) and Eastern Germany. We overcome the problem of a...

We examine how regularly scheduled macroeconomic announcements for the U.S., Germany and the euro area affect the German stock market, using high-frequency, minute-by-minute DAX data. Our study extends the literature on high-frequency announcement effects in several ways. First, we account for...